>> After testing the beta of CentOS 5, i was a little surprised to notice >> that the display manager part of the prefdm file in /etc/X11 was exactly >> like in CentOS 4 / RHEL4 and previous versions including RH9. >> >> >> it reads like this (added line numbers for reference): >> >> 14 # Run preferred X display manager >> 15 preferred= >> 16 if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then >> 17 . /etc/sysconfig/desktop >> 18 if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then >> 19 preferred=gdm >> 20 elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then >> 21 preferred=kdm >> 22 elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then >> 23 preferred=xdm >> 24 fi >> 25 fi >> >> >> >> Line 17 is no functional command i know of, therefor the choice of >> which displaymanager (login-screen) to use is decided by the fallback >> lines later in the script (that starts with gdm). If you're ok with gdm, >> than there's no need for this to change. >> > > Hi, > > > I believe that in bash and sh placing . (dot) followed by a space and > then a file will source that file, and in so doing source the > DESKTOP="BLAH" > into the current environment. > > A. > Typo there I meant: DISPLAYMANAGER="BLAH" A. > >> Still, it would seem that something is missing there. >> My best guess for what was supposed to be there: >> >> >> >> # Run preferred X display manager >> preferred= if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then DISPLAYMANAGER=$(cat >> /etc/sysconfig/desktop | grep DESKTOP | cut -d '"' -f2) >> if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then preferred=gdm elif [ >> "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then >> preferred=kdm elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then preferred=xdm fi fi >> >> >> This would make kdm your display manager when using kde as default >> desktop and gdm when using gnome. Although the grep part is not >> necessary, i added it in case someone decides to add lines to the >> desktop file someday... >> >> I've come across one forum post in which someone suggested to add the >> line DISPLAYMANAGER="KDM" to the desktop file in order to achieve the >> same result. For this to work the prefdm file should be altered like >> this: >> >> >> >> # Run preferred X display manager >> preferred= if [ -f /etc/sysconfig/desktop ]; then if [ -n "$(cat >> /etc/sysconfig/desktop | grep DISPLAYMANAGER | cut -d '"' >> -f2)" ];then >> DISPLAYMANAGER=$(cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop | grep DISPLAYMANAGER | cut >> -d >> '"' -f2) >> if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GDM ]; then preferred=gdm elif [ >> "$DISPLAYMANAGER" >> = KDM ]; then >> preferred=kdm elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then preferred=xdm fi >> else DISPLAYMANAGER=$(cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop | grep DESKTOP | cut -d >> '"' >> -f2) >> if [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = GNOME ]; then preferred=gdm elif [ >> "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = KDE ]; then >> preferred=kdm elif [ "$DISPLAYMANAGER" = XDM ]; then preferred=xdm fi fi >> fi >> >> It all seems basic scripting to me so i wonder if no-one simply never >> noticed or never cared to finish this one. >> >> Rody >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > >